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Real Bread Maker Week

7-13 May 2012

Want a delicious, all-natural, genuinely fresh local loaf of Real Bread?

Then it's time to give some love to the bread maker

  • In your home
  • On your high street
  • In your hands

 

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What is Real Bread Maker Week?

Not that anyone needs an excuse, but Real Bread Maker Week is the time to seize sandwich supremacy!

Almost every household in Britain buys a loaf or more each week, and the majority of us eat some every single day.  The thing us, far too much of what we buy is laced with artificial additives and perhaps hidden processing aids.

Whether your local Real Bread maker is the machine at the back of your kitchen cupboard, at a nearby bakery, or at the end of your sleeves, now is time to GET REAL!

Get involved

Real Bread Maker Week is all about YOU!

Here are three ways you can kick the additive habit:

More suggestions

How will YOU be helping people to celebrate Real Bread Maker Week this year? Here are just a few ideas of offers you could make or activities you could organise:

  • A discount on a Real Bread course
  • A discount on bread making flour.
  • A tour of your Real Bread bakery
  • Visiting a local school as part of our Lessons in Loaf scheme
  • A competition to win a class, baking equipment, flour...
  • A get together to share Real Bread tips and recipes, preferably using locally produced ingredients
  • Setting up a drop-off/pick-up point for unloved bread machines
  • Bread machine loaf picnic
  • Best bread machine loaf competition
  • Put a bread machine in a communal area for other people to borrow - e.g. student halls, block of flats, staff room or kitchen at work. 

Perhaps you could involve a local community group such as your:

  • WI group
  • Scout or guide troop
  • Work colleagues
  • Local school
  • Farmers' market
  • Community shop
  • Sharing network
  • Slow Food group

For further inspiration, have a look at what people got up to during Real Bread Maker Week 2010 and 2011.

If you are planning an event, please add details to our events calendar NOW!

If you have a special offer, please email details to realbread [at] sustainweb.org and we'll publish them here.

Special offers

We'll be posting special Real Bread Maker Week offers from bakeries, courses and mills here.

If you'd like to make an offer (e.g. on bread making courses, flour, bread making equipment, or your loaves) please email realbread [at] sustainweb.org

Events

To find or add details of bakeries, mills and other groups hosting Real Bread Maker Week activities locally, visit our events calendar

If you have passed on or picked up a bread machine, get along to the Real Bread Maker Week group on Facebook to share your stories.

You can also share your #realbread news and stories on twitter or on the  Real Bread Maker Week facebook wall.

National Mills Weekend

As the Real Bread Campaign champions all-natural local loaves, It's no coincidence that Real Bread Maker Week coincides with National Mills Weekend.

Whether you're baking at home for yourself, or baking Real Bread for other people in your local community, there are many benefits to seeking out a local traditional flour mill.  These include:

  • Getting delicious, nutritious, stoneground flour direct from the producer
  • Buying flour that has been produced by wind or water power - two genuinely sustainable and environmentally sound sources of energy
  • Supporting an enterprise that is owned and run by local people - and in some cases will be a co-operative and/or charitable institution
  • Helping to safeguard local heritage for future generations
  • A fun and educational family day out

National Mills Weekend is run by the Mills Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.  Many of the mills that are open to visitors are members of the Traditional Cornmillers Guild, and will be running activities to help you get the best out of making Real Bread with traditionally-milled stoneground flour.

www.nationalmillsweekend.co.uk

Bread machine exchange

You can share your Real Bread recipes, stories, tips, pictures, or event ideas in the  #realbread stream on twitter and on the  Real Bread Maker Week facebook wall.

Want to get hold or rid of a bread machine?  Here are a few organisations that will help you to pass it on any time of the year:

EcoModo
EcoModo enables people to lend and borrow everyday objects, skills and spaces and already have a number of breadmakers for people to borrow and a member willing to teach others how to make Real Bread - and raise money for charity at the same time. Visit www.ecomodo.com

Freecycle
Freecycle helps people who have things they no longer need to give them away to people who do need them and in the process keeps many useful items from filling up our landfill sites. To request or offer a bread maker go to www.freecycle.org and join your local group.

Freegle
Freegle is an email list hosted on Yahoo! Groups that allows you to give stuff away when you need to get rid of it but don’t want to throw it in the bin. Or save something from landfill by asking for it; perhaps someone has just what you need that they were about to throw away. To see how you can pick up or pass on a bread machine, visit www.ilovefreegle.org

Let's All Share
To find bread machines being offered, simply type 'breadmakers' into the search bar and they will be displayed on a map so you can see the breadmaker nearest to you. If you want to give away or rent out your breadmaker, you just need to set the rules about renting or giving, delivery or collection as required and publish it to the breadmakers category.  www.letsallshare.com

ooffoo
On ooffoo you can reuse, recycle, swap, sell, give away, write & blog, vote, debate & discuss their latest hot topic, find recipes & useful eco tips and much more. To add a free classified ad for a machine you want to pass on, visit www.ooffoo.com

Streetbank
Streetbank is a site that helps you share and borrow things from your neighbours. Sign up with your name and postcode, add at least one item 9like a bread machine), skill or recommendation and see all the items within one mile radius of your home. www.streetbank.com

If you would like to get your organisation involved in finding new homes for second-hand bread machines, please let us know.

Click here for some more ideas on how to pass it on.

Recipes

This is an opportunity for home bakers to share their recipes and tips with others around the country.

To start you off, here are a couple:  basic Real Bread for your breadmaker by Andrew Whitley and some new adventures in sourdough

If you have your own recipe, please add it to the #realbread stream on twitter or on the  Real Bread Maker Week facebook wall. We're especially keen on hearing from anyone who's had success at making genuine sourdough in a bread machine.